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the city has never looked better. and also on a jobs day i do want to note the unemployment rate in the city of new orleans right now is under 5%. so if anything could say they came back stronger, you could definitely say that about new orleans. although i will tell you that there are some pockets that still show the damaging effects of the storm 7 1/2 years later. >> well, okay. but it's still great news. and the low unemployment rate is great news. >> absolutely. >> now, i hate to do it to you, old buddy. but as you know, it's a very big part of the super bowl story. a lot of people are talking about it. has nothing directly to do with the super bowl. that's of course dan marino. he's part of the cbs team covering the game. has a love child. we learned that today. "the new york post" put the story on the front cover. i don't know if we have a picture of that or not. so i want to ask you, look, marino is a great hall of fame player. no question about that. what is this stuff going to mean? does it have any impact on
the city has never looked better. and also on a jobs day i do want to note the unemployment rate in the city of new orleans right now is under 5%. so if anything could say they came back stronger, you could definitely say that about new orleans. although i will tell you that there are some pockets that still show the damaging effects of the storm 7 1/2 years later. >> well, okay. but it's still great news. and the low unemployment rate is great news. >> absolutely. >> now, i...
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. >> the point that's valid is we are big city folk. in the smaller, rural parts of the country and you can speak to the congressmen representing the districts the post office is the central meeting place. i have never been to these places. there is something going on there. i respect that. >> if you go on a listening tour. >> i should. >> you're making the right point. this point will come up later with the military. it's so widely distributed. everybody has an impact on this. we do live in big cities but people in kansas don't have the same relationship. >> shouldn't have to pay for that. >> you can't have everything you want in life. i have a number. $47 trillion. do you know what $47 trillion is? from the cbo, congressional budget office, that's u.s. federal spending for the next ten years. $47 trillion. okay? can we agree that's a big number? now the post office will add to that number. i think we should be subtracting from that number. i don't care what sentimentality or who claire mchaskill is. she shouldn't have run the race. sh
. >> the point that's valid is we are big city folk. in the smaller, rural parts of the country and you can speak to the congressmen representing the districts the post office is the central meeting place. i have never been to these places. there is something going on there. i respect that. >> if you go on a listening tour. >> i should. >> you're making the right point. this point will come up later with the military. it's so widely distributed. everybody has an impact...
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the new york city streets are horrible. >> you are so mean and cruel. >> but it's not just the maintenance of the current bridges and roads it's the need to build new bridges and roads, for example. the bridge or tunnel to connect new york and new jersey. >> david, here's the thing, what is the relationship between -- all right there's always going problems. keith is right. there's bad roads in new jersey and some in new york. how do we know what the spending should be and why should it all be federal spending. where is the state spending. where is the privatization. where is the toll booth spending you have for private companies the way they have it in indiana and some other highway states? >> well we have increased the toll booth spending over the last few years but still a relatively small share of the total. the feds contribute about a third. the states contribute about two-thirds of the total so most of the money comes from state gasoline taxes and other fees that the states impose. so together all of those contribute to the system that we now have. the upper level system, those the i
the new york city streets are horrible. >> you are so mean and cruel. >> but it's not just the maintenance of the current bridges and roads it's the need to build new bridges and roads, for example. the bridge or tunnel to connect new york and new jersey. >> david, here's the thing, what is the relationship between -- all right there's always going problems. keith is right. there's bad roads in new jersey and some in new york. how do we know what the spending should be and why...
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boston area, how fast does it come south and west through connecticut into new york city and the metropolitan area here? >> it's going the other way around. it's going to start -- new york city will be tomorrow morning, connecticut will be about midday, then boston mid afternoon and then again everybody just needs to be off the roads. if we can get everybody off the roads by noon tomorrow through noon on saturday, we're going to save a lot of people a lot of frustration because i'm telling you, when it's start snowing at two to three inches an hour, the plows can't keep up. all it takes is one bus to slide off the road and it's gridlock on the roadways. running out of gas and spending the night in a cold car, it's not fun. i never talked to anyone who said they wanted to do that again, spend the night in a cold car. >> take care of yourself. >> tonight we heard another dire warning from secretary of defense leon panetta about what would happen if the sequester cuts quick in. next and protesters interrupted confirmation hearings five times before cia director john brennan even finished his ope
boston area, how fast does it come south and west through connecticut into new york city and the metropolitan area here? >> it's going the other way around. it's going to start -- new york city will be tomorrow morning, connecticut will be about midday, then boston mid afternoon and then again everybody just needs to be off the roads. if we can get everybody off the roads by noon tomorrow through noon on saturday, we're going to save a lot of people a lot of frustration because i'm...